Early in September Australia commemorated two of its national symbols. September 1 was National Wattle Day, in recognition of Australia’s national floral emblem, the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha).

On this day, 124 years ago, the Australian flag was flown for the first time. It flew over the dome of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne — the seat of the fledgling Australian federal government — ...

Two MPs want burning the Australian flag to be made illegal, arguing the act is not a 'harmless protest' and pointing to other countries that have outlawed flag burning. Nationals backbencher Pat ...

Mild Australia was roused from its apathy, with a ferocity that may have lacked only a few years earlier. The flag burner galvanised the nation – against him. It was one small moment that may help ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two bills have been introduced to criminalise damaging the burning of the national flag. Picture: NewsWire / Tertius Pickard Two ...

Nationals backbencher Pat Conaghan was the first cab off the rank, introducing an amendment to the Criminal Code to prohibit “the burning, destruction, desecration or other serious dishonouring of the ...

The ban would also apply to the burning of Australia’s two national Indigenous flags, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, and be punishable by a jail term of up to two years. Independent ...